SOMEONE TO RUN WITH, by David Grossman
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Join us for an online conversation about Someone to Run With, David Grossman's story about Assaf, an awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old. Tasked with finding the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, a cloistered Greek nun, and a talented young singer, Tamar, who is engaged in a mission of her own: to rescue a teenage drug addict.
Praised for its mixture of fairy-tale magic, emotional sensitivity, and gritty realism, Someone to Run With explores the life of Israeli street kids and the anxieties of family life in a society racked by self-doubt. But most of all, it captures the adventure of adolescence and the discovery of love, as Tamar and Asaf, pushed beyond the limits of childhood, find the objects of their quests, find themselves, and find each other.
Book length: 352 pages
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SOMEONE TO RUN WITH, by David Grossman